Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What’s new.

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Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Between biweekly 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Like with 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. The previous beta 3 introduced a brand new Android editor port! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 91

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). branch for use in production. we're now ready to release Godot 3.4.3-stable

Render 52

Render Texture Scripting Agent 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). branch for use in production. A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2

Render 52

Render Texture Bug Scripting 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. We released a Beta 1 build a week ago. This is also helpful for CI pipelines. Type icons are back!

Beta 52

Beta Bug Lightmap Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. beta 1 now! is set in stone. What's new?

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we’ve been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What’s new.

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40